Sanja Iveković
Personal Cuts, 1982
Video
“In 1982 Iveković presented Personal Cuts on prime-time Yugoslavian national television, on TV Zagreb’s 3, 2, 1 – Action! In it she confronts the camera wearing a translucent black stocking mask pulled over her head, terrorist-style. Using scissors she cuts one hole after another into the mask, revealing one section of her face at a time, and each cut is followed by a short sequence of archival footage culled from a television program on the history of Yugoslavia, produced by the state shortly after Marshal Tito’s death, in 1980, and chronicling 20 years of the socialist republic. Cut by cut, in sequential shots, Iveković at once exposes her face and suggests the insidiousness of national propaganda—mass rallies, a public address by Tito, and monuments, all promoting the socialist way of living—thus demonstrating that historical events are inextricable from human ones, and ending with the artist’s face fully uncovered. Personal Cuts is modeled on a television documentary but formally and conceptually undercuts the totalizing, unified picture of official history; history is presented as broken inscription rather than linear narrative. Iveković infiltrates media space and disrupts the official narrative, reshuffling it, using the cut as a leitmotif and a reference to the editing and montage strategies that have informed her photocollages and video works.” - MoMA
Source: moma.org
Swati Khurana
Sometime Sometime from the series ‘Love Comes First’ Bollywood Mashups
Source: swatikhurana.com
Artist of the Day- Kate Gilmore
Still from Anything
Single channel video with sound
2009
Note: For today’s artist, I highly recommend that you visit her website as a supplement. A lot of her video work is directly embedded as Quicktime files on her website, meaning that we can’t post it here. So, what we posted was cobbled together from her gallery’s Vimeo and some stills from her website.
-Rhiannon
Source: emcmatt.wordpress.com
Jennifer Steinkamp
Madame Curie
2011
The Museum of Contemporary Art commissioned Jennifer Steinkamp to create a site-specific video animation work to respond to the interior architecture the Farrel Gallery. Entitled Madame Curie, the seven-channel, synchronized projection is inspired by Steinkamp’s recent research into atomic energy, atomic explosions, and the effects of these forces on nature. Marie Curie was the recipient of two Nobel Prizes for creating the theory of radioactivity, and discovering radium and polonium. She was also an avid gardener and lover of plants. Flora rendered realistically for this work include rambler roses, wisteria, chestnut blooms, and hop plants, among many others drawn from a list of over 40 plants mentioned in Marie Curie’s biography written by her daughter, Eve Curie.
-Lucía Sanromán
Source: jsteinkamp.com
